LA-FL Regional Watershed Management Webinar March 31, 2021 Louisiana Office of Community Development St. Johns River Water Management District WORKING TOGETHER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE 1. Introduction Pat Forbes, Executive Director Louisiana Office of Community Development 2. St. Johns River Water Management District Presenters: Marc von Canal Cammie Dewey Environmental Resource Program Manager Environmental Resource Program Manager Division of Regulatory Services Bureau of Environmental Resource Permitting Participants: Abby Johnson Yanbing Jia AGENDA Intergovernmental Coordinator Technical Program Manager Government Affairs Division Bureau of Watershed Management and Modeling 3. Questions Facilitated by: David Lessinger, Senior Advisor Alexandra Carter, LWI Program Manager CSRS Louisiana Office of Community Development LOUISIANA WATERSHED INITIATIVE WORKING TOGETHER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE 2 St.St. JohnsJohns RiverRiver WaterWater ManagementManagement DistrictDistrict Marc von Canal Environmental Resource Program Manager Bureau of Environmental Resource Regulation St. Johns River Water Management District St. Johns River Water Management District Who We Are • 12,283 square miles • Covers all or part of 18 counties in northeast and east- central Florida St. Johns River Water Management District St. Johns River Water Management District Core Missions Water supply Water quality Flood protection Natural systems St. Johns River Water Management District District Budget by Core Mission Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Flood Natural Protection, Systems, $22.1 , 9.5% $10.4 , 4.5% Water Supply, $101.4 , 43.6% Water Quality, $98.6 , 42.4% The District’s Fiscal Year 2020–2021 Adopted Budget is $242 million, including $9.6 million in Administrative Expenses 7 St. Johns River Water Management District Water Supply Our water in northeast and east-central Florida • More than 90 percent comes from the Floridan aquifer system. St. Johns River Water Management District Water Supply Planning • Districtwide water supply plan and regional plans • Looks 20 years out • Three regions St. Johns River Water Management District Water Conservation St. Johns River Water Management District Alternative Water Supply Options • Reclaimed water • Stormwater capture • Surface water • Seawater St. Johns River Water Management District SJRWMD Cost-Share • Since FY 2014 to 2020 – SJRWMD awarded $204.2 million – $500.6 million in construction costs • Estimated benefits: – Alternative water supply: 166.5 million gallons per day (mgd) – Water conserved: 20.7 mgd – Total Nitrogen reduction: 2.2 million lbs/yr – Total Phosphorus reduction: 406,112 lbs/yr 12 St. Johns River Water Management District A Typical Florida Watershed St. Johns River Water Management District • Agriculture • Industry • Wastewater discharges • Stormwater runoff St. Johns River Water Management District www.sjrwmd.com/data St. Johns River Water Management District Lake Apopka Marsh Flow-way Crane Creek Doctors Lake St. Johns River Water Management District Managing Public Lands St. Johns River Water Management District Permitting St. Johns River Water Management District Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) • ERP Rules are authorized by Florida Statute and described under Chapter 62- 330, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.). • Guidance for the design, criteria, and submittal of ERP applications is provided in the Applicant’s Handbook and the Permit Information Manual. • The specific criteria for individual permit issuance (those projects that do not qualify for an exemption or a general permit) are described in Section 62- 330.301 and 302, F.A.C. • St. Johns River Water Management District Individual ERP Criteria • An applicant must provide reasonable assurance that the construction, alteration, operation, maintenance, removal, or abandonment of a system will not: • (a) cause adverse water quantity impacts to receiving waters or adjacent lands; • (b) cause adverse flooding to on or off-site properties; • (c) cause adverse impacts to existing surface water storage and conveyance capabilities; • (d) adversely impact the value of functions provided to fish and wildlife and listed species by wetlands and other surface waters; • (e) adversely affect the quality of receiving waters to cause violation of water quality standards; • (f) cause adverse secondary impacts to water resources; • (g) adversely impact maintenance of surface or ground water levels or surface water flows; • (h) cause adverse impacts to works of the District; St. Johns River Water Management District Public Interest Test for ERPs in Wetlands • In addition to the previous criteria, projects requiring an individual ERP that are located in, on, or over wetlands or other surface waters must pass a public interest test. • In any wetland or other surface water, the project must not be contrary to the public interest (i.e.: neutral or better); in designated Outstanding Florida Waters (OFW), the activity must be clearly in the public interest (i.e.: positive), based on these considerations: • 1. public health, safety, or welfare of others; • 2. conservation of fish and wildlife, including endangered or threatened species and their habitats; • 3. navigation, flow of water, harmful erosion or shoaling; • 4. fishing or recreational values or marine productivity in the vicinity; • 5. temporary or permanent in nature; • 6. historical and archaeological resources; • 7. current condition and relative functions provided by affected area • There are additional considerations for cumulative impacts, shellfish classified waters, and seawalls in estuaries. St. Johns River Water Management District The SJRWMD ERP Regulatory Team • The Bureau of Environmental Resource Regulation (BERR) is within the Division or Regulatory Services (DRS) and administers the ERP Program. • The Review, Compliance and Mitigation Banking and FDOT Mitigation Program Teams are composed of approximately 50 Scientists and Engineers and their leadership team. • In 2020, the Bureau issued over 3,200 permits. St. Johns River Water Management District Thank You Marc von Canal [email protected] www.sjrwmd.com Statewide ERP (SWERP) Permitting 101 SJRWMD Cammie Dewey, PE Environmental Resource Program Manager St. Johns River WMD Thresholds • ERP Thresholds (62-330.020, F.A.C.) 4,000sf of impervious/semi-impervious surface subject to vehicular traffic 9,000sf of impervious/semi-impervious surface Project area of 5 acres or more Impound more than 40 ac-ft of water Any project in, on, or over wetlands or other surface waters Additional listed, plus any District-specific threshold Authorization Types • Exemptions (62-330.050, 62-330.051, 62.330.0511, F.A.C., Section 1.3 Applicant’s Handbook Volume II, and 373.406 F.S.) • General Permits (62-330.402, F.A.C.) • Individual Permits (62-330.054, F.A.C.) Individual Permit Application Submittals • Coordination/Pre-App mtg • e-permitting • Water Quality • Water Quantity/Flooding • Wetlands/Surface Waters • Special Hydrologic Basins • Operation & Maintenance Water Quality • Traditional Treatment BMPs • Impaired waters • Low Impact Development (LID) Water Quantity • Mean annual storm event • 10-year, 24-hour storm event • 25-year, 24-hour storm event • 25-year, 96-hour storm event • Floodplain 10-year floodplain - Districtwide 100-year floodplain - Special Hydrologic Basins Traversing works Special Hydrologic Basins • Upper St. Johns River Hydrologic Basin, 12/7/83 • Ocklawaha River Hydrologic Basin, 12/7/83 • Wekiva River Hydrologic Basin, 5/17/87; 8/30/88 • Wekiva Recharge Protection Basin, 5/17/87; 8/30/88; 12/3/06 • Econlockhatchee River Hydrologic Basin, 4/3/91 • Sensitive Karst Area Basin, 9/25/91 • Tomoka River and Spruce Creek Hydrologic Basins, 11/25/98 • Lake Apopka Hydrologic Basin, 3/7/03 Long-term O & M • Section 12 AH Vol I • As-Built certification by a PE • Long-term inspections Coordination with Local Governments • Regional versus Local requirements • Coordination during review and compliance • Local government projects • Restoration projects • Flooding and/or water quality retrofit projects • Public lands access improvements Thank You Cammie Dewey, P.E. [email protected] Urban River Restoration – The Elba Way Erosion Control Improvements Little Wekiva River Basin Little Wekiva River Erosion Control History • Urban streams often have to handle flows far in excess of their capacity – Little Wekiva River (LWR) is no exception • Hydraulic models and Sediment & Geomorphic model identified river bed erosion as major issue –drove goal to develop profile slope • Master Plan identified 16 projects • Elba Way Dredge and Grade Project became number 15 LWR – Typical Impacts of Erosion H&H and Geomorphologic Models • AdICPR with its two modules was used to model the entire watershed of the LWR work done by Singhofen & Associates under contract with Woodward-Clyde • A geomorphologic model developed by URS- Woodward-Clyde in cooperation with St. Antony Falls, University of Minnesota, was used to model the river sediment transport • A stable riverbed slope of 0.075% was established for all improvements Urban River Restoration – The Elba Way Erosion Control Improvements • The Little Wekiva River over the past 20 years has been subject of numerous erosion and sediment control improvement projects • These improvements include bank restoration, widening of the hydraulic cross section, implementation of grade control structures, sedimentation ponds, and bank stabilization Project Extent Project Ends End Start Elba Way: